Minnesota legislators say they'll introduce bill over location-tracking ignition systems

A bipartisan group of Minnesota legislators says the state’s use of location-tracking data from ignition interlock devices in the cars of drunken-driving offenders is unconstitutional — and they intend to try to stop it early in next year’s legislative session.

Rep. Peggy Scott, R-Andover, and Rep. John Lesch, DFL-St. Paul, said Monday that they will introduce a measure that would restrict the Department of Public Safety’s ability to track the movements of the approximately 11,000 people who use an interlock device as part of their sentence.

The department has been using the devices, which analyze a driver’s breath to check for sobriety — and won’t allow the car to start if the driver has had too much to drink — since 2010.

More recently, however, it has been ensuring that each device is able to immediately notify officials of where and when violations occur.

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